Here's a place where I can post my thoughts on new papers, provide updates on my projects, and post info that will eventually be on my website The Theropod Database - http://theropoddatabase.com/ . It will center on theropods, but may delve into other topics as well such as phylogenetics.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Theropod Database info published and credited

I've done my fair share of complaining when material of mine is published without attribution, or ideas suspiciously similar to mine are published. But there's the flipside as well- when authors credit me in their work, and this post is a thanks to them.

Most recently, Hendrickx and Mateus (2014b) in their description of Torvosaurus gurneyi not only credited me for photos and Dilophosaurus "breedorum" info, they even linked to my blog in the supplementary info. Thank you so much.

Similarly, Hendrickx and Mateus (2014a) credited me in their theropod tooth paper. I was very happy to see my hypothesis Richardoestesia is a dromaeosaurid supported by their analysis.

There's also Soto and Perea (2008) on ceratosaurid teeth, Martyniuk (2012) for a lot of things in his field guide as mentioned before, and Zanno and Makovicky (2013) on theropod herbivory. Thanks everyone.

Coming up... Aves tests.

References- Soto and Perea, 2008. A ceratosaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda)
from the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous of Uruguay. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
28(2), 439-444.

Martyniuk, 2012. A Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds and Other
Winged Dinosaurs. Vernon, New Jersey. Pan Aves. 189 pp.

Zanno and Makovicky, 2013. No evidence for directional evolution of body mass in herbivorous theropod dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 280(1751), 20122526.

Hendrickx and Mateus, 2014. Abelisauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late
Jurassic of Portugal and dentition-based phylogeny as a contribution for the
identification of isolated theropod teeth. Zootaxa. 3759(1), 1-74.

Hendrickx and Mateus, 2014b. Torvosaurus gurneyi n. sp., the largest terrestrial predator from Europe, and a proposed terminology of the maxilla anatomy in nonavian theropods. PLoS ONE. 9(3), e88905.